Exhibition Inquisition

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We need to talk about the Japanese Pavilion, Michael.

Michael Govan on his plans for a new Zumthor-designed LACMA:

Another issue could be the name game: three of the four buildings to be torn down under the Zumthor plan are named for their keystone donors: the Hammer and Ahmanson gallery buildings and the Bing Center, which houses the museum's 600-seat theater. Govan acknowledged that this could be a sensitive matter.

"The names will not disappear," he said. They'll be reassigned to some of the new building's features. His message to the potentially displaced honorees, he said, has been "we can do it even better."

"I'm not going to say everyone's going to be happy," he added. "It's a conundrum" facing many institutions that replace old buildings with new ones.

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Agree or disagree: we should let arts organizations that don’t adapt die.

AGREE.  I remember when I brought this up in Grad School and people fell out of their seats.

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"Cities have a lot to gain when they land major cultural landmarks. Cities have just as much to lose when a cultural project goes wrong." - Kriston Capps on the Philadelphia Museum of Art's plans for a Frank Gehry expansion (bottom image).

The same rationale may apply just as well to The Grand Avenue Project (top image - old renderings for the Grand.)

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Would taxpayers be more willing to give additional funding if it was still called the Miami Art Museum?

"The Pérez Art Museum Miami wants a $2.5 million boost in government support, with taxpayers set to cover a third of the museum’s budget next year."

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Birthday wishlist / next tattoo inspiration: Found this treasure at the @deyoungmuseum's gift shop - Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House textile brick trivet. 

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I sometimes forget the deyoungmuseum has a James Turrell skyscape tucked away in its sculpture garden.

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"Except for the giant Balloon Dog (oddly, only the red one) and a few of the other huge, shiny baubles for billionaires, I don’t like much that he made between 1994 and 2007." - Jerry Saltz on the Koons retrospective at the Whitney.

I didn't know there even was a red one!  Time to update the blog.

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The Broad gets its first fashion spread in W Magazine featuring supermodel Raquel Zimmermann.

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Ai Wei Whoops (L) - not as fun as Jeff Koons Must Die! (R).

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Let's talk some more about public-private development projects. Eli Broad with Mayor Garcetti. 

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Cashflow: Will taxes from redevelopment construction like the Arquitectonica-designed building (background) help fund the Broad (foreground)?

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New(ish) Frank Gehry models of the Grand (with Disney Concert Hall and the Broad).

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The Fishers, George Lucas and Alice Walton ain't got nothing on Eli --the great (tax) tactician.

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"I chose a faux Mediterranean look from the 1920s that was developed in Hollywood." - George Lucas

So much cast-stone decoration. Yes, those are film reels.

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"I am more of a Victorian person. My hobby is architecture but most of the architecture I do is retro, mostly Frank Lloyd Wright and Victorian."

- George Lucas

This looks more like an imitation of Hearst Castle.

Image: Renderings of his proposed Lucasfilm production facility in Marin County, which were never realized. Thanks NIMBYs.

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We need to talk about "illustrative art." - George Lucas with Norman Rockwell's "The Shadow Artist."

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“I thought a museum was a concept that people already bought into about 200 years ago. They’re having us do as much work as we can hoping that we will give up. [...] They hate us.” – George Lucas